01:119:150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Australopithecus, Brain Size, Sivapithecus
30 Sep 2020
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Characteristics (a, closer to ape than hominids) pliopithecus. Ancestor of the gibbon, looked like a modern day gibbon, arms not as long as modern day gibbon. Ancestor of modern chimpanzee and the gorilla (a) dryopithecus. 14 (10^6, millions) (h, closer to hominids than ape) australopithecus. Earliest man-like primate, oldest of man"s ancestors in a direct line. Walked upright, lived on the ground, may have used stones for defense, we descended from australopithecus. Vegetarian, evolutionary dead end, competed with advanced australopithecus. Increased cranial capacity, contemporary of paranthropus, used primitive tools. First man of our own genius, primitive in brain and hands, used fire (light, warmth, cooking, and protection) and (h) early homo sapiens. More modern in face structure tools, believed to have hunted, lives communally (h) solo man. Found on java, had pronounced brow ridges, sloping forehead, massive skull, modern limbs, extinct race of homosapiens found on. Used tool made of stone and bone, extinct race of homosapiens found in africa.
